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North Korea reports over 200,000 fever cases for 5th day amid Covid wave

North Korea reports over 200,000 fever cases for 5th day amid Covid wave

-- 2022-05-21 11:22:39

North Korea on Saturday reported more than 200,000 new patients suffering from fever for a fifth consecutive day, as it fought its first confirmed coronavirus outbreak. The ongoing COVID wave, declar...

India accuses China of illegal construction in border area

India accuses China of illegal construction in border area

-- 2022-05-20 21:02:15

India on Friday objected to China's construction of a second bridge across disputed Pangong Lake, an area it said has been under the "illegal occupation" of China since the 1960s. India's challenge c...

Biden touts cooperation with Samsung on Asia trip

Biden touts cooperation with Samsung on Asia trip

-- 2022-05-20 20:10:54

Joe Biden's first stop on his inaugural trip to Asia as US president on Friday was a massive Samsung Electronics semiconductor plant, underscoring a message of economic security with an eye on China....

China 'quietly increases' purchases of low-priced Russian oil

China 'quietly increases' purchases of low-priced Russian oil

-- 2022-05-20 15:49:17

China is quietly ramping up purchases of oil from Russia at bargain prices, according to shipping data and oil traders who spoke to Reuters, filling the vacuum left by Western buyers backing away from...

Shanghai finds cases after five days of 'zero Covid'

Shanghai finds cases after five days of 'zero Covid'

-- 2022-05-20 14:52:28

Shanghai announced its first new Covid-19 cases outside quarantined areas in five days on Friday, triggering stricter curbs and mass testing in one district but plans to end a prolonged city-wide lock...

North Korea's Dr Fauci? Health official emerges as face of Covid campaign

North Korea's Dr Fauci? Health official emerges as face of Covid campaign

-- 2022-05-20 13:12:10

At 9:30 am every day this week, a soft-spoken official has appeared on North Korean television to report the number of people with fever and new deaths, and to explain measures to stop North Korea's f...

The wild mushrooms killing India tea garden workers

The wild mushrooms killing India tea garden workers

BBC 2022-05-20 12:06:11

When Anjali Kharia sat down for dinner with her daughter on 8 April, she didn't know this would be their last meal together. After a long day of work at a tea garden in Assam's Chapatoli vill...

Sri Lanka's prime minister warns of food shortages

Sri Lanka's prime minister warns of food shortages

-- 2022-05-20 11:54:46

Sri Lanka's prime minister has warned of a food shortage as the island nation battles a devastating economic crisis and vowed the government will buy enough fertiliser for the next planting season to...

Taliban say female Afghan TV presenters must cover face on air

Taliban say female Afghan TV presenters must cover face on air

-- 2022-05-19 21:21:51

Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have asked television broadcasters to ensure that female presenters on local stations cover their faces when on air, an official said on Thursday. The move comes da...

Sri Lanka fuel shortage set to ease, police clash with protesters

Sri Lanka fuel shortage set to ease, police clash with protesters

-- 2022-05-19 18:14:03

Sri Lanka's central bank has secured foreign exchange to pay for fuel and cooking gas shipments that will ease crippling shortages, its governor said on Thursday, but police fired tear gas and water c...

India aims to produce half of its arms at home due to ‘turbulent’ world order

India aims to produce half of its arms at home due to ‘turbulent’ world order

-- 2022-05-18 23:33:40

India is looking to domestic firms and eastern European nations for military gear and ammunition, as the world's biggest buyer of Russian arms seeks alternative suppliers at a time when Moscow is figh...

India frees convict in Rajiv Gandhi murder case after three decades

India frees convict in Rajiv Gandhi murder case after three decades

-- 2022-05-18 21:17:34

India's Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the release of AG Perarivalan, who was convicted of involvement in the assassination of former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991. Gandhi was killed...

India’s Hindu groups file petitions to stop Muslims from entering Gyanvapsi mosque

India’s Hindu groups file petitions to stop Muslims from entering Gyanvapsi mosque

-- 2022-05-18 19:57:39

Members of hardline Hindu groups filed petitions in a court in northern India to stop Muslims from entering a historic mosque, until the court decides on an earlier plea seeking approval to look for a...

Sri Lanka has no money to pay for fuel, its minister says

Sri Lanka has no money to pay for fuel, its minister says

-- 2022-05-18 17:41:18

Sri Lanka is expected to be placed into default by rating agencies on Wednesday after the non-payment of coupons on two of its sovereign bonds, while the energy minister said the country had run out o...

'Huge' pressure for Shanghai to stay Covid-free as end to lockdown looms

'Huge' pressure for Shanghai to stay Covid-free as end to lockdown looms

-- 2022-05-18 13:41:19

Health authorities in Shanghai faced "huge" pressure to keep China's most populous city free of COVID-19 as residents were counting down the days until June 1 and the end of their lockdown after almos...

China Eastern crash probe eyes intentional action

China Eastern crash probe eyes intentional action

-- 2022-05-18 11:51:26

Investigators looking into the crash of a China Eastern Airlines jet are examining whether it was due to intentional action on the flight deck, with no evidence found of a technical malfunction, two p...

5.5-magnitude quake hits 226 km SSE of Katsuura, Japan

5.5-magnitude quake hits 226 km SSE of Katsuura, Japan

-- 2022-05-17 21:56:24

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 jolted 226 km SSE of Katsuura, Japan at 13:17:51 GMT on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said. The epicentre, with a depth of 11.07 km, was initially determined...

Taliban dissolve five key bodies of former US-backed government

Taliban dissolve five key bodies of former US-backed government

-- 2022-05-17 20:50:45

Taliban authorities in Afghanistan dissolved five key departments of the former US-backed government, including the country's Human Rights Commission, deeming them unnecessary in the face of a financi...

India overturns ban on Muslim prayer gatherings at Gyanvapi mosque

India overturns ban on Muslim prayer gatherings at Gyanvapi mosque

-- 2022-05-17 20:27:09

India's Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a local order to ban large Muslim prayer gatherings in a high-profile mosque in north India after a survey team said it found relics of the Hindu god Shiva...

Iran-backed Hezbollah, allies lose majority in Lebanon parliament

Iran-backed Hezbollah, allies lose majority in Lebanon parliament

-- 2022-05-17 17:53:38

Iran-backed Hezbollah and its allies have lost their majority in Lebanon's parliament in a general election, a tally of final results showed on Tuesday, a major blow to the heavily armed group that re...

China's news sector employs 1.0m in two years

China's news sector employs 1.0m in two years

-- 2022-05-17 17:51:06

China's news sector employed approximately 1.0 million employees in the 2020 and 2021 calendar years, according to a report by the All-China Journalists Association (ACJA) unveiled Monday. Omni-media...

World a ‘virtual tinderbox’ for catastrophic levels of severe malnutrition in children: UNICEF

World a ‘virtual tinderbox’ for catastrophic levels of severe malnutrition in children: UNICEF

FE ONLINE REPORT   2022-05-17 12:58:58

The number of children with severe wasting was rising even before the war in Ukraine threatened to plunge the world deeper into a spiralling global food crisis - and it’s getting worse, UNICEF w...

Japan announces limited 'test tourism' from May as step to full re-opening

Japan announces limited 'test tourism' from May as step to full re-opening

-- 2022-05-17 11:17:51

Japan said on Tuesday it would start conducting "test tourism" in the form of limited package tours in May as a way of gathering information prior to a full re-opening of the country to tourism. Thou...

Sri Lankan PM says they have petrol stocks just for one day

Sri Lankan PM says they have petrol stocks just for one day

-- 2022-05-16 21:12:57

Sri Lanka's new prime minister said on Monday the crisis-hit nation was down to its last day of petrol, as the country's power minister told citizens not to join the lengthy fuel queues that have galv...

Hindu idols found at India’s Gyanvapi mosque, Muslim prayer gatherings banned

Hindu idols found at India’s Gyanvapi mosque, Muslim prayer gatherings banned

-- 2022-05-16 20:49:56

A court in north India on Monday ordered authorities to limit large Muslim prayer gatherings in the historic Gyanvapi mosque after a survey team found relics of the Hindu god Shiva and other Hindu sym...

North Korea battles Covid with antibiotics, home remedies

North Korea battles Covid with antibiotics, home remedies

-- 2022-05-16 19:17:36

Standing tall in bright red hazmat suits, five North Korean health workers stride towards an ambulance to do battle with a Covid-19 outbreak that - in the presumed absence of vaccines - the country is...

Indonesia tourist bus crash kills 14

Indonesia tourist bus crash kills 14

-- 2022-05-16 17:08:04

A tourist bus with an apparently drowsy driver slammed into a billboard Monday on a highway on Indonesia’s main island of Java, killing at least 14 people and injuring 19 others, police said. T...

Sri Lanka PM to address crisis-hit nation

Sri Lanka PM to address crisis-hit nation

-- 2022-05-16 14:50:20

Sri Lanka's new prime minister will address the crisis-hit nation later on Monday, as the country's power minister told citizens not to join the lengthy fuel queues that have galvanised weeks of anti-...

North Korea's Kim orders military to stabilise supply of Covid drugs

North Korea's Kim orders military to stabilise supply of Covid drugs

-- 2022-05-16 13:27:06

Leader Kim Jong Un has ordered North Korea's military to stabilise distribution of COVID-19 medicine in the capital, Pyongyang, in the battle on the country's first confirmed outbreak of the disease,...

Shanghai targets June 1 return to normal as Covid lockdowns cool economy

Shanghai targets June 1 return to normal as Covid lockdowns cool economy

-- 2022-05-16 11:08:55

Shanghai set out plans on Monday for the return of more normal life from June 1 and the end of a painful COVID-19 lockdown that has lasted more than six weeks and contributed to a sharp slowdown in Ch...